Like so many before it, the company confused innovation with novelty. Real innovation changes the course of industries or even society. The light bulb, the microwave oven, the fax machine, iTunes. These are true innovations that changed how we conduct business, altered how we live our lives, and, in the case of iTunes, challenged an industry to completely reevaluate its business model.

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Big Data, Meet Big Brother in
the Commentary section of
Time
by Fareed Zakaria

The NSA program Prism aims to identify suspicious patterns to allow the government to prevent terrorism (i.e., to act before an attack takes place). A research project at the Department of Homeland Security that tried to predict terrorist behavior based on people's vital signs--physiological patterns--was 70% accurate, according to the authors.

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The Happiness of Pursuit in
the Cover Story section of
Time
by Jeffrey Kluger

Your shoes are not unique; your TV's not unique. Your vacation to Rome or your family camping trip, however, are much more particularly yours since nobody else in the world did exactly the same things or shared them with exactly the same people you did. And far from wearing out, the memories of the experience grow richer over time. "Money can make you happy," Howell says. "But it's about how you spend it."

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CULTURE in
the CULTURE section of
Newsweek
by Marlow Stern

Danny Boyle's 2002 film 28 Days Later commented on unfettered scientific experimentation, militarism, and the Hobbesian "state of nature" (and reinvented the genre by transforming the undead from limpers to sprinters).

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BYE-BYE, BUTTONS in
the NEWSMAKERS section of
Newsweek
by Nina Strochlic

At the end of the day, the slightly larger, square-screened Q10 certainly won't have touchscreen users yearning for the keypad days of yore. Besides, in the not-too-distant future, when the next generation of Google Glass comes embedded in your contact lenses, we'll tell our kids about the days when we had to tap commands on our cell-phone screens. "With your fingers?" they'll gasp.

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YOU'RE BEING HACKED in
the FEATURES section of
Newsweek
by Michael Moynihan

The Jester's techniques have varied over the years. In 2010 after WikiLeaks posted a tranche of classified State Department cables online, he launched a denial of service (DoS) attack—in which a server is flooded with junk data, rendering it unable to respond to legitimate queries—and briefly took the site offline.